Geelong West man Jarrod Schmock caught with homemade firearm, ice and cannabis

A Geelong West man caught with a homemade gun told cops he was using it as a baton.

Jarrod Schmock was caught with firearm parts and methamphetamine in his mother's home. Picture: Instagram.

A homemade firearm, ammunition and ice was found stashed in pipes and shoes in a Geelong West man’s home.

Jarrod Schmock, who lives in a shed on his mother’s property, told police he owned the drugs and ammunition but claimed he was only using parts of the homemade firearm as a baton.

Police executed a search of the Geelong West house in December 2021 and found the firearm had been left in pieces inside a bag.

They also found a firearm magazine inside a shoe, a shotgun cartridge, ammunition stashed inside a PCV pipe and a bum bag, methamphetamine in two separate bags, cannabis inside a shoebox and an extendible baton scattered around his shed.

Schmock pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a prohibited person, drugs, theft and dealing with proceeds of crime charges after first seeking a sentencing indication from the Geelong Magistrates Court.

His lawyer told Magistrate Peter Mellas the firearm charge was originally in dispute because the weapon was used as a baton.

But Mr Mellas said it would be unlikely to hold up in court if he chose to continue to contest the charge.

Drugs were found in Jarrod Schmock’s Geelong West home. Picture: Instagram.

“Police execute a search warrant, they find all this stuff, he’s pleading guilty to drugs, he’s pleading guilty to the ammunition, he’s got a part of the firearm that he says he uses as a baton, but the other bits of firearm, he says he’s not guilty of that,” Mr Mellas said.

“How is he going to avoid what looks like an inevitable finding of guilt?

“There are significant issues,” Mr Mellas said.

A motorbike was also found at the property which police tracked back to an unrelated theft in Melbourne in May 2021.

Schmock pleaded guilty to stealing a motorbike outside a Hamlyn Heights home in July 2020.

The court heard Schmock has an acquired brain injury that made him “susceptible to the influence of his peers” and caused him to become “quite impulsive and unable to consider consequences”.

Mr Mellas ordered Schmock be assessed for a community corrections order on “the basis that the firearm was in pieces and there was no evidence it was going to be used in anyway”.

“These are serious charges so there should be some punishment,” Mr Mellas said.

Schmock was placed on a corrections order for 14 months.

Originally published as Geelong West man Jarrod Schmock caught with homemade firearm, ice and cannabis